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November 26, 2005: “Broken Hill and its surrounding towns have perhaps the highest concentration of artists in the nation.”
December 7, 2005: “Broken Hill declared natural disaster”
Minicyclones? All that global warming and that’s the best you can do.
You guys gotta drive more down there.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 12 07 at 11:33 AM • permalink90 kph winds? That’s a little under 60 miles per hour. That’s not even a Category 1 hurricane. In fact, it’s a rather middling tropical storm. Wimps.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 12 07 at 12:07 PM • permalinkMaybe it was a disaster area before that breeze and people just didn’t know it, what with all the “art” flying around.
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2005 12 07 at 04:23 PM • permalinkbroken hill was a really weird place totally controlled by the barrier industrial council…..the unions.
it was like a place lost in a time warp, a stalinist outpost conducting some evil social engineering experiment in the middle of the desert.
infact the union headquarters used to be called ‘the kremlin’ and the nsw education department used to transfer the more radical and troublesome teachers to broken hill as punishment…...it was the teachers’ gulag.
the unions came up with their own set of rules that applied in the town;
*had to live in town for 7 years before you could work on the mines.
*the sons of a father working on the mines automatically got a job or preference.
*a married woman was not allowed to work in town if her husband worked.Thanks for the warning. My best mate is going to teach there next year.
Posted by Tony.T.Teacher on 2005 12 07 at 07:36 PM • permalinkLike a car wreck, I can’t turn away from articles about artists: Artists want U.S. to withdraw troops from Iraq.
“The facts are debatable,” said Nick Mottern, 66, a carpenter from Peekskill, “but the idea that the U.S. has to get out is central.”
Saying it was their responsibility as artists to keep the discussion about Iraq alive in America, the group tossed around possible projects that would help to spread its message.
Dave Finucane, a saxophonist from Peekskill, suggested…. “Artists have to find some way of adding to the discussion,” said Finucane, 40. “If it’s not talking about the issues of the day, what is art for?”
In my parts it’s for spreading on toast.
Andrea,
We’re not wimps. The mere mortals on the ground here have no control over the windspeeds. Next time the neo-con club go on a catastophy raid down here in Oz they need to turn up the downdraft setting on the black helicopters.
That’s the dial under the red lake displacement button for those of you that haven’t read the ops manual.Posted by Hank Reardon on 2005 12 07 at 08:20 PM • permalinkThey knew how to sell a lot of papers there. The trade unions own the Barrier Daily Truth and every unionist had to subscribe. In the heady days, there could be say, Dad and four sons working the mines—over the fence every morning came five copies of the BDT. Often the most boring read in creation: Every letter and comma of every local industrial agreement had to be published. Still, such a blokey, frontier place produced lots of rivetting hard news stories and some terrific reporters came out of the Hill—Bob Bottoms and Peter Hocking spring to mind.
Lawrence,
My favorite artist story was the one about the 400 poets who were so angry about the Iraq war they were going to break up the tea party that Laura Bush invited them to.Can you imagine the scence? All those wimpy, wire-rimmed glasses people…what, tossing cakes and biscuits? AFter stuffing a few in their pocket for later, I imagine.
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